Artificial intelligence has demonstrated its ability to improve healthcare by reducing workflow inefficiencies, predicting health outcomes and speeding up diagnoses, but significant questions remain about how to ensure these technologies are created and deployed responsibly.

Walgreens grew its digital health platform March 4 by expanding four existing collaborations with healthcare providers and adding 11 new ones.

In a worldwide survey, 78 percent of institutions said the COVID-19 pandemic affected their ability to provide childhood cancer care, according to findings published March 3 in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health journal. 

Below are 16 hospitals and health systems that recently posted job listings seeking chief nursing officers. 

The Joint Commission and Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente on March 4 unveiled an annual healthcare equity award in memory of Bernard J. Tyson, Kaiser's late chair and CEO.

More than 200,000 Americans have signed up for health insurance coverage through the ACA marketplace after the Biden administration opened up healthcare.gov for a special enrollment period.

Jacksonville, Fla.-based Memorial Hospital unveiled its electrophysiology lab and updated catheterization lab during a March 3 ribbon-cutting ceremony.

Inflammatory heart diseases such as myocarditis and pericarditis are rare among professional athletes who have had COVID-19, according to a study published March 4 in JAMA Cardiology.

AmerisourceBergen CEO Steven Collis is slated to receive a 2020 pay package 24 percent larger than the one he received for 2019, a bonus the drugmaker made possible by removing its $6.6 billion opioid settlement costs from its year-end CEO evaluation, according to a March 2 report from The Washington Post.

The SARS-CoV-2 virus may more easily bind to the airway cells of people with Type A blood, according to a study published March 3 in Blood Advances.

Some recipients of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine experience delayed rashes that can take about six days to heal, according to a small study published March 3 in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Novartis said March 4 that it will help manufacture CureVac's COVID-19 vaccine candidate. 

St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Mass., said it has hired replacement workers ahead of a planned strike, amid contract talks with the union representing its 800 registered nurses.

The U.S. is now vaccinating about 2 million people per day on average, The New York Times reported March 3. 

About 150 technical employees went on strike March 4 at St. Charles Health System's hospital campus in Bend, Ore., according to hospital and union statements.

Renton, Wash.-based Providence is being investigated by California's attorney general, Xavier Becerra, over allegations that it inappropriately applied religious care restrictions at Hoag Memorial Hospital in Newport Beach, Calif., the Los Angeles Times reported March 3. 

Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Wake Forest Baptist Health plans to invest $23 million in market adjustments and pay alignments, including raising its minimum wage to $15 per hour, the organization said March 3.

DispatchHealth, a provider of in-home medical care, on March 3 closed a $200 million series D financing round. 

A lawsuit filed by UnitedHealthcare that accuses medical labs of operating a $100 million billing scheme will move forward after a judge denied some of the defendants' motions to dismiss the claims, according to court documents and Bloomberg Law.

A January ransomware attack on an Arizona eye clinic encrypted data files on its patient scheduling and billing software and in some cases deleted patient information, according to the clinic's online breach notice.